![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Duck and Cover - Archer Productions, Inc.
Selected for the 2004 National Film Registry of "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" motion pictures. Famous Civil Defense film for children in which Bert the Turtle shows what to do in case of atomic attack.
Keywords: Atomic-nuclear: Civil defense; Animation
Downloads: 567,842
Average rating:  (73 reviews) |  |
| Perversion for Profit (Part I) - Unknown
Anti-pornography film produced by financier Charles Keating, linking pornography to the Communist conspiracy and the decline of Western civilization.
Keywords: Culture wars; Sexualities; Pornography
Downloads: 295,779
Average rating:  (77 reviews) |  |
| Classic Television Commercials (Part I) - Various
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Consumerism; Advertising: History
Downloads: 193,691
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Square Dance - Handy (Jam) Organization
Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of square-dancing cigarettes.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Substance abuse: Tobacco; Animation: Stop-motion
Downloads: 143,017
Average rating: (23 reviews) |  |
| Television Commercials (1950s-1960s) - Various
Examples of broadcast advertising from the 1950s and 1960s.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Consumerism
Downloads: 124,414
Average rating: (30 reviews) |  |
| Wonderful New World of Fords, A (1960 Ford Spot) - Filmways
Ford commercial linking new compact cars to futurism and the space frontier.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Automobiles: Advertising; Futurism
Downloads: 90,823
Average rating: (22 reviews) |  |
| Cheerios/V-8 - Filmways (?)
Cereal commercial targeted at children of the space age.
Keywords: Space: Culture; Advertising: Television commercials; Agriculture: Food industry: Cereals
Downloads: 85,306
Average rating:  (19 reviews) |  |
| Classic Television Commercials (Part III) - Various
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Consumerism; Advertising: History
Downloads: 62,769
Average rating:  (12 reviews) |  |
| Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Marching Cigarettes - Handy (Jam) Organization
Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of marching cigarettes.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Substance abuse: Tobacco; Animation: Stop-motion
Downloads: 62,311
Average rating: (15 reviews) |  |
| Classic Television Commercials (Part II) - Various
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Consumerism; Advertising: History
Downloads: 56,482
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Classic Television Commercials (Part V) - Various
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Consumerism; Advertising: History
Downloads: 44,739
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| [Eisenhower Campaign Spots, 1952 Presidential Campaign] - Disney (Roy)
The "I Like Ike" animated television commercial, produced by Roy Disney and Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon.
Keywords: Political campaigns and elections; Eisenhower, Dwight David; Presidents
Downloads: 41,980
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Once Upon a Honeymoon - Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
Delightful musical made to promote color telephones as a decorator accessory in the home.
Keywords: Communication: Telephone; Consumerism; Houses and homes
Downloads: 41,550
Average rating: (27 reviews) |  |
| Classic Television Commercials (Part IV) - Various
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Consumerism; Advertising: History
Downloads: 40,640
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Classic Television Commercials (Part VIII) - Various
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Consumerism; Advertising: History
Downloads: 39,652
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| It's Everybody's Business - Sutherland (John) Productions, Inc.
Corporate Cold War-era cartoon linking Bill of Rights to free-enterprise ideology.
Keywords: Cold War; Capitalism; Animation: Advertising
Downloads: 37,371
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Great New Star, A - Handy (Jam) Organization
Dinah Shore promotes the new Chevrolets and sings "See the U.S.A. in your new Chevrolet."
Keywords: Automobiles: Advertising
Downloads: 37,150
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Extra (Esso Screen Ad) - Unknown
Part-animated screen ad for Esso "Extra" gasoline.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Animation: Advertising; Oil industry
Downloads: 35,924
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Classic Television Commercials (Part VI) - Various
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Consumerism; Advertising: History
Downloads: 34,223
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Newport Cigarette Commercial #4
A television commercial for Newport cigarettes.
Keywords: commercial
Downloads: 33,535
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| Aurora Stunt and Drag Race Set Commercial
Television commercial for Aurora Stunt and Drag Race toy cars.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 27,411
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| RCA Victor Commercial
Downloads: 26,326
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Young Man's Fancy (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Astonishing sitcom-style sponsored film encouraging increased consumption of electricity by an ever-increasing number of appliances. The plot pits a starry-eyed teenage girl against a geek whose main interests happen to be engineering and time study.
Keywords: Electricity; Gender roles; Houses and homes
Downloads: 23,862
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Flying with Arthur Godfrey (Part I) - Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
TV host Arthur Godfrey takes controls of a passenger plane to demonstrate airline operations.
Keywords: Aviation: Commercial; Transportation: Air
Downloads: 21,588
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Kelloggs Variety Pak Commercial
Downloads: 20,192
Average rating:  (6 reviews) |  |
| [Television Commercials: Telephone] - Unknown
Three TV commercials; one set in St. Louis, Missouri, another on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, and a quick review of telephone history.
Keywords: Communication: Telephone; Advertising: Television commercials; St. Louis, Missouri
Downloads: 19,872
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| Classic Television Commercials (Part VII) - Various
Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium.
Keywords: Advertising: Television commercials; Consumerism; Advertising: History
Downloads: 18,547
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Your Hit Parade Commercial
Television commercial for Hit Parade cigarettes.
Downloads: 18,201
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| Sunbeam Bread Commercial #1
0736 PA8910 Sunbeam Bread TV Commercials "John Engel, 1953-1957"; was PA-3992
Downloads: 17,957
Average rating:  (8 reviews) |  |
| RCA 16mm Sound Projector, The - Radio Corporation of America (RCA), Motion Picture Productions
Invisible white-gloved hands demonstrate the operation of the RCA 16mm sound projector.
Keywords: Motion pictures: Projection
Downloads: 17,871
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Olds Minute Movies [Futuramic 1948] - Handy (Jam) Organization
Theater advertisements for the first all-new automobile to be placed on the market after World War II, the Oldsmobile Futuramic.
Keywords: Advertising: Screen ads; Automobiles: Advertising; Design
Downloads: 16,623
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Tupperware Commercial #3
Downloads: 16,298
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Hillsborough with New Hideaway Styling, The - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotes a new console television that folds into a piece of furniture so as to conceal the all-seeing picture tube. We have the picture, but not the soundtrack of this film.
Keywords: Media: Television; Furniture; Houses and homes: Interior decoration
Downloads: 15,518
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Flying with Arthur Godfrey (Part II) - Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
TV host Arthur Godfrey takes controls of a passenger plane to demonstrate airline operations.
Keywords: Aviation: Commercial; Transportation: Air
Downloads: 15,251
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Young Man's Fancy (Part II) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Astonishing sitcom-style sponsored film encouraging increased consumption of electricity by an ever-increasing number of appliances. The plot pits a starry-eyed teenage girl against a geek whose main interests happen to be engineering and time study.
Keywords: Electricity; Gender roles; Houses and homes
Downloads: 14,066
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Scotties Tissue Commercial
Television commercial for Scotties Facial tissues.
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 13,870
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| New Seven-Function Remote Control for Color - Handy (Jam) Organization
Promotes an early version of the television remote control. We have the picture, but not the soundtrack of this film.
Keywords: Media: Television; Electronics; Technology
Downloads: 13,843
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Always Tomorrow
Dramatized history of the Coca-Cola company and some of the people who participated in its origin and growth. Made in the style of a feature film.
Downloads: 13,662
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| As We Like It
Beer promotional film. "Sparkling, golden, pure, refreshing, a beverage as old as history."
Keywords: need keyword
Downloads: 13,429
Average rating: (9 reviews) |  |
| Polaroid Dealer Announcement (1964) - Bay State Film Productions, Inc.
Introduces Polaroids marketing campaign for the year 1964, including TV commercials. Produced for dealers.
Keywords: Media: Photography: Instant Photography; Advertising: Television commercials; Sales: Training
Downloads: 12,928
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Macleans Toothpaste Commercial
Television commercial for Macleans Toothpaste.
Downloads: 11,739
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Fashion Horizons - Donahue (Harry D.)
Southwestern U.S. travelogue flies around in modern 1930s airplanes, stopping off at Albuquerque and an Arizona dude ranch, all the time focusing on fashions worn by its cargo of aspiring Paramount starlets. Excellent pre-World War II fashion footage in Kodachrome, plus documentation of affluent tourist destinations. Produced and directed by Harry D. Donahue. With Mary Martin.
Keywords: Fashion; Aviation: Commercial; Travelogues
Downloads: 11,414
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| Photography - Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc.
Careers in photography and cinematography.
Keywords: Occupations: Photography; Media: Photography; Motion pictures: Production
Downloads: 11,366
Average rating:  (2 reviews) |  |
| Sentinel in the Sky - Strauss (Henry) and Company, Inc.
Modern radar for passenger aircraft. Shows how man has always reached for vision of the things beyond his sight, beginning, perhaps, with the ancient sailor who first climbed the mast to see over the horizon. In modern times the quest has led to such airborne aids as the gyro compass, horizon indicator and radio direction finding navigational systems. Sequences on radar show its basics and how it works in modern planes...
Keywords: Animation; Radar; Aviation: Navigation
Downloads: 9,878
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Folgers Coffee Commercial #4
Downloads: 9,754
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Dollar Store
0584 PA8478 Dollar Store #2
Keywords: need meta
Downloads: 9,396
Average rating: (17 reviews) |  |
| Gilbert Slot Car Racers Commercial
Downloads: 8,976
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| At This Moment (Part I) - Handy (Jam) Organization
Importance of railroads to 1950s America. Directed by Haford Kerbawy.
Keywords: Transportation: Railroad
Downloads: 8,753
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| US Steel Commercial #2
Downloads: 6,792
Average rating: (4 reviews) |  |
| [Television commercials: Toothpaste, hair care, deodorant]
B/W 1) 00:02:85 A husband helps his wife remove from the car an "antique" chair that she just purchased. He jokes that it looks like a dentist chair, which leads her to comment that Johnny only had two cavities, which she thinks must be due to their use of CREST. The husband then notices that the chair was made in The U.S.A. in 1951. 2) 00:34:31 GLEEM -- "Preventive Medicine for fewer cavities. Stannous fluoride plus stannous pyrophosphate"...
Downloads: 6,775
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
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